Boss, It's My First Time Being Your Resident - Chapter 17

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Episode 17. I Will Decline. Senior

Pathetic skill?
Child’s play? Go to sleep?

Without giving her a chance to respond, Ha Tae-heon had left only a few cutting words before turning away coldly, and his retreating figure had wavered across her ceiling throughout the dawn.

He said he wouldn’t eat.
What was next—stealing the tangerine from her hand?

The harsh demeanor he’d shown in the Resuscitation Room also lingered as an afterimage, overlapping in her vision again and again.

The cold, brisk way he’d snatched the needle from her hand during the C-line Procedure.
The frigid face he’d shown when he passed by without even glancing at her pleas to let her into the Operating Room.

But why.

“This is your punishment. Marry me, marry me, marry me!”

Why did the unrealistically tender image of him from the dream keep clouding her vision?

He’d appeared in her dream only once, so why did it keep happening?

Her head was a complete mess over what to say first.

Should she say she was happy to see him again today?
Or should she act as though nothing had happened and ask him to work well with her.

Or else, should she bow deeply and ask him to become her master, overdoing it like “Please accept me as your student!”

All she could hope for was that the two months of her assignment would pass smoothly.

And if she could get a good evaluation to present confidently to the professor on top of that, it would be perfect!

That was when Tae-heon’s cold voice cut through her ear.

“Move out of the way if you’re not going in.”
“I-I’ll go in!”

It was the moment Tae-heon was passing her without even a glance.

Ju A-gang squeezed her eyes shut as though she’d made a decision.
Then she grabbed the hem of his coat as it receded and cried out.

“Look at me, please!”
…….

Tae-heon’s footsteps stopped dead, as if by a lie.

“I have something I really want to tell you!”

Her fingertips trembled, but she squeezed her courage from deep in her core and recited the lines she’d prepared.

“A hospital isn’t a school! You were right about that.”

Tae-heon turned slowly and looked down at her with a cold face.

For a moment she nearly buckled under his presence, but she gathered every ounce of her remaining courage and spat out the final words.

“I’m not here for a visit either! I came because I wanted to do my best over these two months.”
…….
“I want to go into the Operating Room. I want a chance to practice, a proper chance to learn! Please support me.”

A-gang bowed deeply toward Tae-heon’s chest.
Her heart pounded so hard it felt ready to burst from her mouth.

“You want my patients as your practice subjects?”
“……That’s not quite what I meant.”
“That will never happen.”
…….
“My operating room becoming a practice lab. My patients becoming practice dummies.

Tae-heon stepped closer and leaned toward A-gang’s ear. They were close enough to feel each other’s breath.

“I won’t allow it. Not an amateur like you in my Trauma Center.”

The sudden whisper made A-gang swallow dryly.
Her entire body went rigid as her expression shifted one-eighty, as though she’d swapped faces.

She’d known his personality wasn’t warm to begin with, but she couldn’t understand why his reactions were always this sharp.

“And, one more thing? Who here is my junior?”
…….
“I don’t train juniors.”

A-gang clenched her sweat-soaked palms tight and mustered her courage once more.

“I’m a Resident and this is my training hospital! You’re a Fellow with a duty to teach me!”
“So?”

Tae-heon let out a hollow laugh as though exasperated.

“So……, so…….”
“Find someone else. There are plenty of other Fellows here besides me. Oh, and Professor Ma!”
“Senior…….”
“From now on, don’t call me senior.”

Tae-heon pulled his coat sleeve from A-gang’s grip without care.

“I will decline. Your request.”
“……So you’re saying I’ve been exiled on my first day of work?”

A-gang planted herself firmly behind Tae-heon’s back.
Her breath caught at the overwhelming presence of his broad frame filling her view, but she couldn’t back down now.

“So you think I’m a problem case too!”

Annoyed at being trailed, Tae-heon strode toward the station with wide steps and answered coolly.

“No, a guest.”
“……Pardon?”
“To me, you’re nothing but a guest. I don’t teach guests, so just stay quiet and don’t cause trouble for two months, then leave.”
“……I’m a guest?”
“Go write your papers, study over there. You’ll do fine on your own, nobody will stop you.”

Tae-heon pointed with a jerk of his chin at an empty desk sitting forlorn in the corner of the station.

It was a space where staff usually left their tumblers and snacks.

A-gang bit her lip hard.
……She’d never experienced such humiliation, not even back when she was a medical student.

“I want to learn! I’m confident I can do this well! Why are you treating me like an outsider!”

But Ha Tae-heon didn’t even pretend to listen, disappearing from sight.

A-gang was left standing alone in the middle of the Trauma Center.

Standing defenseless in the wide-open space right now, it felt like all you’d need was lighting and she’d be a perfect actor on stage.

A-gang clenched her palms, damp with sweat.

Even if she became invisible, she just had to shed the invisibility cloak herself.
A Resident lives on momentum. Come on, Ju A-gang!

“Hello everyone! Let me introduce myself properly! I’m Ju A-gang, a first-year Resident on assignment from the PS Department. I’ll be working with you all for two months. Thank you for your care!”

Perhaps she didn’t control her volume well, because her clear, bright voice filled the quiet space.

In an instant, every staff member’s gaze fixed on A-gang simultaneously.

Even Tae-heon’s receding footsteps stopped dead.

An awkward, strange silence fell.

A-gang felt her face burn and wanted to crawl into a mousehole, but she lifted her head as though nothing were wrong.

That’s right! Take a good look at my audacity as a thoroughly ignored new hire!

“Haha! So it’s you!”

Then, from a distance, Professor Ma, built like a bandit king, approached with hearty laughter, swinging his arms wide.

“That’s right! Since you’ve become part of our family, welcome!”

Professor Ma showed A-gang his beefy hand with a generous gesture and broke into a booming laugh.

“Thank you, Professor. I’ll study hard!”

As A-gang bowed, the awkward atmosphere finally lifted, and a soft smile spread across the staff’s faces. But the welcome wasn’t over yet.

“Self-introduction!”
“Self-……introduction?”
“Yeah, self-introduction. Not just your affiliation—your actual self-introduction!”

Perhaps to set some discipline for the new hire.
Professor Ma stood with his arms crossed, looking down at A-gang with great expectation.

It was an uncomfortable moment.
The simplest question, yet simultaneously the most awkward.

The staff members, who found the hesitant new hire so endearing that they could barely suppress their giggles, caught A-gang’s eye.

Even Tae-heon, who’d been staring expressionless at charts, had his lips curling up slightly.

“I am…….”

A-gang steadied her trembling breath and slowly opened her mouth.

“I’m A-gang—’A’ as in beautiful, and ‘gang’ as in strong. People often tell me my name is unusual. When I was born, my body was weak, so my grandfather gave me this name, hoping I’d grow healthy and strong. I’m trying to live up to my name!”

“Oh, that’s right. Beautiful and strong A-gang. I’ll remember! Keep going!”

Professor Ma nodded with a smile, urging her on.

“I’m twenty-six now, and I’ll be twenty-seven in a few months. I finished my internship at Cheon-woo University and came to Se-in University for my Residency. Thank you for your support!”

The more all eyes focused on her, the more A-gang’s cheeks flushed red like peaches.

“Oh, that’s right. You ran away to our hospital after a patient publicly proposed to you at Cheon-woo University, didn’t you?”
“……What?”

It was a bombshell question out of nowhere.

“I can’t resist my curiosity. The video spread through our professors’ group chat.”

Professor Ma asked with a mischievous smile, as though he knew nothing.

“It spread through our Fellows’ chat too!”

Eun-do, who wanted to jump into the interesting topic, sparkled his eyes and chimed in with Professor Ma’s words.

“Well, actually…….”

A-gang, flustered and unsure what to do, stammered on.

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